Peru, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Peru, Chautauqua County.
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Peru, Kansas, unfolds across a landscape of broad, sweeping horizons, where the Kansas sky stretches in an endless blue dome, often painted with streaks of sunset that bleed into the deepening twilight. It lies 24.4 miles north-north-west of Bartlesville, OK (from Bartlesville, OK: bearing 345°T), and is situated 5.7 miles east-south-east of Sedan. The terrain here is a gentle, rolling prairie, softened by a century of cultivation, where fields of wheat and corn ripple in the breeze like a golden and green sea. Ancient Osage orange hedgerows, thick and gnarled, delineate property lines, their tangled branches offering a sanctuary for unseen birds and the occasional flash of a rabbit’s white tail. The air, especially in the quiet hours of dawn, carries the clean scent of turned earth and wild grasses, a fragrance that speaks of sustenance and the patient work of generations. The history of Peru is etched not in grand monuments, but in the enduring spirit of its people and the quiet hum of its agricultural roots. Established by settlers drawn to the fertile soil, Peru became a small but vital hub, its economy long tied to the bounty of the land. The grain elevator, a stoic sentinel against the vast prairie sky, still stands as a testament to this enduring connection, its silos a silent promise of harvest. Though the railroad that once brought vital commerce has long since faded, the character of Peru remains, a place where neighbourly bonds are as strong as the wind that sweeps across the plains, and where the rhythm of life is dictated by the turning of the seasons.
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| Location | Peru, Chautauqua County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.088671°N, 96.09471°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 67360 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Peru, Kansas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Peru includes coordinates 37.088671°N, 96.094710°W, situated in Chautauqua County. ZIP code 67360. Telephone area code: 785. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.